Join me as my wingman for a sunset flight in my 1955 Piper Tripacer! Not actually the slowest airplane around Song: Light Me Up Artist: Bronze Radio Return • Bronze Radio Return - ...
@@kevinhill242 I've heard from Dad and a couple others that these little short-wing, short-coupled Pipers tend to really drop when the power is cut on landing approaches. Not much of a glider like their counterpart Cessnas.
I learned the basics in a Tri-Pacer. My Dad had one in the mid-50's. I missed it when he upgraded to a V-35B Bonanza. While in college in the '70's I had a friend with a Colt. Just a Tri-Pacer with a name change. He used to let me fly it. I was his A&P mechanic.
Had 5 different tri pacers, converted 2 to 22/20s, good old planes. Eddie Trimmer is the super pacer man in Willow Alaska, 180hp, extended flaps, fuselage, and wings, 2 18 gal tanks each wing, cub tail feathers. They are a monster performer.
..Loved this short video! Excellent time for a nice puddle-jump flight! You are a lucky young man! Beautiful vintage airplane! My gifts time ever up in a small plane, or any plane, was in a '54 Tri-Pacer. in Oct '55. What an exhilarating experience!! Find for sharing!
Remember these being imported to the UK through my local airfield when I was a youngster. If it still carries its original registration any Piper with a G-AP??? or G-AR??? registration through Kidlington. Happy days.
Southbridge MA! Nice video, brought back a lot of memories. Back in the nineties, I was taking lessons at Spencer Airport- Skyhawk 560Z. I will forever remember that time and my first solo (s).
Love the curved rear window of the earlier PA22's. I have three, but they're all 56 models and newer. Oh, yeah, they're not the slowest airplane around, but they're not exactly SR71s, either.
Yes, the one we flew down to here in from NYC also had that hyperbolic curved rear cabin window. Recall us cruising along at about 110-115mph, flying the airways down our Eastern Seaboard..What an exerience! The only other Piper aircraft I flew in as a r. seat passenger was an Apache, also out of LaGuardia, about 1962..
I once rode "right seat" in a Tri-Pacer on a flight where we covered exactly 281 "air miles" in exactly 1 hour 55 minutes! Of course we had a bit of help from a tail wind ! So, not actually as "Slow" as you might think! Cheers 🍻 😊
My dad had an identical Tri-Pacer he flew out of Michigan in the late 60's. It swallowed a valve over Sudbury Ontario, but got them to the airport safe.
I also had a 55 tripacer. N2959P. back in 1972, 90 hrs SMOH, new cover and paint. Original interior. I love her. Paid $4000.00 but had to sell her one year later for $4500. I rented airplanes after that for another year. 5 years later I became a helicopter pilot, and retired with 10,000 hrs. never flew fixed wing again. However I missed that trypacer !!
I remember my dad showing us that plane which when in a stall situation it could appear you were still climbing. Kind of a stable stall optical illusion.
Nice aircraft. Got hooked on flying in one long time ago. Used to fit 4 big guys in it and land on beaches, unprepared runways, virtually anywhere. Still lives on in Australia as serial 22-4510. Was never mine.
Very nice job. Impressed with your taking advantage of the sunlight and great choices for the 360. Good work. One of the first planes I ever rode in was a TP. I was about 13. I now fly a 46 Ercoupe.
@@kevinhill242 It is awesome. Windows open. Cruise at 106 and 4 GPH. Mine has been totally restored with every STC available other than rudder which I refuse to do. I’ve flown every JP airplane out there when working, but this is JUST fun! I love it. Mine is in Army Air Corp colors, with custom noseart by the famous John Stahr. Can send a photo if you want. I think I share similar performance with the TP actually. We have some Tripacers on field here as well. A good dependable and solid airplane.
Hi Kevin. I literally stumbled upon your video quite by accident. Awesome my friend, hope someday I see a video of you flying a nice old rotary in the Alaska bush country. See ya soon! Hank
I had a friend with a tripacer and if I could buy a plane again that’s what it would be. 4 people into ungodly short strips and out again. Not fast but the fun of flying is the journey!
I am also a pilot of significant mass, how comfortable is the cabin solo? And with a pax or two? I've been interested in the short wing pipers for awhile now. Never got a chance to fly one tho.
I’m 6’2” and I’m a big guy all around. The cabin solo is very comfortable. I find I have a lot of leg room. I do have a hand brake instead of toe brakes so I’m sure this allows for more leg room. I’ve only ever carried 1 pax at a time as the back seats are quite small and uncomfortable. I’m sure I could replace the seats and it would make things better, but the leg room in the back is small. I’m sure if you had kids they would fit fine in the back, but for now it’s my go to storage area.
..Ill keep this short..My very first time up in any airplane was in Oct 1955, when my dad, a corporate pilot flying Twin Beech 18s out of NYC/LaGuardia, borrowed a '54 Tri-Pacer w/ the 135hp 4-cyl Lycoming engine, to fly from N.Y. down here to Philadelphia, MS to visit his relatives on his badly needed vacation! We were pulled out of school for 2 wks. Was,one of the coolest, memorable, educational experiences I ever had! Recall him operating a metal crank in the head panel betw the front seats..he told me that was the elevator trim tab operating crank. Had no rudder pedal toe brakes, but a s-shaped stick lever under the l. side instrument panel, that actuated the little main gear brakes. I was 6 yrs old, bro was 5, Mom & Dad in late 30's.Slow, noisy airplane. Reeked of 87oct avgas! Never flew in one since. Flew, learned, piloted, did time in Cessna 152s, 172s till I quit flying in the 1980's. That's my long/short story!! Thnx!
Kevin, I definitely enjoyed this video. I'd like to use a couple of screen in an upcoming video of mine. I will of course link to your channel. Is that cool with you?
I use the NFlight exterior ball head mount, which I attach into the light bracket on the wing! Works like a charm and you can play around with the angles. I use a GoPro hero 8 to film with, and with the camera turned sideways for that angle I have never had an issue with bugs getting on the lens. Hope that helps you!
MY parents owned a C-140, my dad a second one later in life, and neither was fond of the Tripacer for some reason, something about how it handled. It may simply have been a Ford versus Chevy thing, I don't know.
Give me a tripacer over a 172 any day. Pull up to the fuel pump in the tripacer and all of a sudden you have some new friends. Pull up to the fuel pump in a 172 and your asked what club do you belong to?
I would take a pacer over a 172 any day of the week. Stop at the fuel pump. There will always be someone wanting to chat. Pull Up in a 172 and your asked what club you belong to?
It's really not all that slow. The aircraft manual true airspeed chart shows 132 Kts TAS at 7000 feet. I have found that is pretty accurate when flying my Tri Pacer.
Thanks for watching Raymond! I enjoyed my video with my music choice personally, but next time I’ll check in with you to see if it’s good enough music for you too ya boomer!! P.S. I’m not a millennial
Not sure what to tell you Melvin, but you need better taste in music my friend if you think that’s ‘crappy rock music’. Make your own flying video with your own music next time
It looks like the nose is slightly raised during straight and level flight. This will bleed off a lot of speed. Initial twsting revealed 77 MPH, Once I got things straightened out I got 107 MPH Nominal cruise. ...But I'm a Piddler!
